Gmail details on computer browser show my phone in NY?

[recDNA]

I live in Massachusetts yet when I log on to a computer and check the location of the mobile device connected to my account (this phone on vzw 4G) gmail properly identifies the ip address of this phone but lists location in NY or NJ. Why is that?

Activity properly conincides with my gmail activity so I'm not hacked.(at least I don't think so) I just dont get why gmail (under details at bottom of inbox screen on a computer) thinks I'm in another state?

Does the tbolt ip address ever change?

 

[anon(394005)]

That's normal. Mine usually shows up as Georgia even though I live well within Alabama. The IP addresses are assigned in blocks to a region (see below). And yes, the phone's IP address will periodically change as it's dynamically assigned by Verizon (ISP).

From IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority): IANA
Allocation of IP Addresses

The IANA maintains a high-level registry of IP addresses. It works with the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) to distribute the large blocks of IP addresses among the RIRs. There are currently five RIRs, distributed around the world:
AfriNIC (Africa and parts of the Indian Ocean)
APNIC (Asia/Pacific Region)
ARIN (North America and parts of the Caribbean)
LACNIC (Latin America and parts of the Caribbean)
RIPE NCC (Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia)

The RIRs are the organizations that actually allocate IP addresses to ISPs. These allocations are in smaller blocks of addresses. The IANA web page "Internet Protocol v4 Address Space" documents how the IPv4 address space is distributed among the RIRs.

Addresses are generally assigned in a hierarchical manner. Users are assigned IP addresses by Internet service providers (ISPs). ISPs obtain allocations of IP addresses from a local Internet registry (LIR) or National Internet Registry (NIR), or from their appropriate Regional Internet Registry (RIR).

You can check IP address info here at ARIN: Whois-RWS

 

[recDNA]

Thanks a lot! I noticed a second mobile ip from yesterday. I was afraid someine in NY had my phone hacked.